Tag: technology

Theology and Technology by John P. SlatteryJul 11, 20222:26 pm

On The Privileges of Personhood

On June 11, Google engineer Blake Lemoine made headlines when he claimed that Google’s most recent natural language processing (NLP) program, LaMDA, was sentient and thus deserving of human rights. Google dismissed his claims and placed him […]

Podcast by DT PodcastOct 24, 20187:00 am

DT Podcast Episode 39 – Daniella Zsupan-Jerome

Today’s podcast features a conversation between Daniella Zsupan-Jerome and Stephen Okey! Friends from their time together at Boston College, they talk about how Daniella’s experience in RCIA aided her in discovering her vocation to theology, […]

Podcast by Stephen OkeySep 19, 20187:00 am

DT Podcast Episode 37 – Katherine Schmidt

Today’s podcast guest is Dr. Katherine Schmidt! She spoke with Steve Okey by phone late this past summer, where they talked about their shared interests in theological engagements with media and technology, how the encounter […]

Guest Post by The EditorsFeb 24, 20158:00 am

Relating Sacramentally in Online Teaching

By Daniella Zsupan-Jerome, Ph.D. Stephen Okey’s recent reflection on “Catholic Identity and Online Education” is a timely conversation starter, and I appreciate his framework of focusing especially on five key areas of concern around Catholic […]

Guest Post by Krista StevensFeb 11, 201411:40 pm

Theology Unplugged: Transforming Students in the Technological Age

By Krista Stevens This semester in my introductory theology class I’m asking my students to create an eight minute documentary focusing on one or more of our class’s “big questions”: Who or what is God? […]

Theology and Culture by Stephen OkeyDec 4, 201311:37 am

In Defense of Inter Mirifica

Today (December 4th, 2013) marks the 50th anniversary of the first two documents to come out of Vatican II: Sacrosanctum Concilium (The Constitution on the Sacred Liturgy) and Inter Mirifica (The Decree on the Means […]

Spirituality by John P. SlatteryJul 1, 20111:55 pm

The Vatican, technology, and being human

This past Tuesday, on the 60th anniversary of Pope Benedict’s ordination to the priesthood, the Vatican published a new, interactive, accessibility-oriented website called news.va…. Impressive to say the least. Note the nice twitter integration; the […]

Theology and Technology by John P. SlatteryJun 20, 201111:44 am

Technology, theology, and the beauty of computational analysis

An interesting article appeared in the journal Science this past January, describing a new method of quantitative computational analysis by employing the vast and mostly hidden digitized library of Google Books for the sake of […]